Two Tories?

Did Question Time observe its usual, though far from unique, Two Tories Rule by featuring Liam Fox and Louise Bagshawe on the same programme? I’m not so sure.

Neither I nor, rather more surprisingly, any of a number of people with no previous connection to either party, has ever been given an answer to the question of the order in which Ms Bagshawe left the Labour Party, joined the Conservative Party, and became a Conservative parliamentary candidate. The third of these things is the only one that she has certainly done.

Whenever I raise the matter of strongly Cameron-backed candidates who were undoubtedly Labour Party members (always of solidly Blairite views and connections) into the very recent past and would appear to be so to this day, I always receive a stream of angry comments and emails, usually from people of whom I have never heard, threatening legal and other action if I name the senders as falling into that category. I fully expect the same again this time. There really does seem to be a very great of it about.

Still, Bagshawe is always good value, because she is very visibly even less interested in politics than either her present or her past Leader, and that is quite a feat. Just as visibly, she has barely two brain cells to rub together and absolutely no idea how ordinary people live. In this, she is no worse than, but merely as bad as, David Cameron and Tony Blair. And that is quite, quite, quite bad enough.